I saw what Walter did showing the features of Premiere, I didn't realize it was as good as it was. I will hang for a bit and hope Apple sees the error of Randy's ways, but if Apple maintains their arrogance, that might be where I'll go as well.

Premiere for Mac does native MXF and native RED for a long time.
Now all they have to do is make the AJA/BMD/Matrox stuff work just as good as with FCP.
Ive tested the AJA io express with CS5.5 but it doesnt work as it should. But im sure it will soon.

I know saying this on this thread is a needle in a haystack, but as a long time Premiere user, I want to tell people that it runs much better on Windows.

... and this is in no way simply being anti-apple for anti-apple sake. In my experience it has just run so much better whether scrubbing on the timeline or loading files, etc.

The one caveat that I think people will realize is that there is no built in "working codec" similar to Prores or Avid DNxHD. You can look at Cineform as a 3rd party solution, but IMHO if Adobe released some sort of Prores type codec (or built in Cineform by default) it would be a really fantastic tool. I think they choose to not include this because they want to be codec agnostic in a way, but the problem is they have no good codec to output when you project is finished. You have a choice between web codecs like h.264, or totally uncompressed... there is no good middle ground.

I don't know that Premiere is any different on Mac (as long as you have NVidia card and proper drivers). I am not sure what the status is right now, the suite itself used to have more apps on windows. I think it was audio tools related.

I read somewhere that there is an issue with NTFS formatted disks and FCP X not liking that - not sure it's true, but that would be an issue with multi-boot and wanting to access assets from both boots.

[Chris Borjis][T]he unfortunate aspect is a lot of us are heavily vested in the mac hardware we have and doing a 180 swap into pc land would be painful.

I think what Apple does with the Mac Pro lines will be telling. If, instead of refreshing it, they drop them entirely from their lineup, I think not only will you see the switch to AVID/Premiere, but also a switch over to Windows 7 machines.

[Paul Escamilla]"here's a very scary thought. What if Apple buys Avid and Adobe and kills off Premiere and Media Composer? Then what?"

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As per Premiere on osx vs. Windows... at work I have a Mac Pro that I dual boot with bootcamp. I have the same versions of Premiere CS5 on both setups and it just clearly works better on the Windows side. This is the exact same hardware, being that it's the exact same machine.

On the Mac side, when I try to rapidly zoom-in-zoom-out on the timeline (which I do a lot) it just drags. Also moving clips around on the timeline, for some reason seems more clunky on the Mac side.

The only reason I boot up into OSX is for FCP 7. If it weren't for that, I would have every other application I use on the Windows side (adobe suite, avid, Cinema 4D, various compression software, etc.)